Bob Brown hopes Australian-born royalty can help secure the release of a prominent anti-whaling activist, currently detained in Greenland.
Former Greens leader Bob Brown has appealed to Tasmanian-born royalty, Queen Mary of Denmark, to step in and urge the release of anti-whaling campaigner Captain Paul Watson. The founder of the Sea Shepherd marine conservation organisation was taken into custody by police last month when his ship docked in Danish-controlled Greenland's Nuuk harbour. Watson was en route to intercept a newly built Japanese whaling ship in the North Pacific when he stopped to refuel and was arrested.
"Australia is deeply disappointed by Japan’s decision to expand its commercial whaling program by adding fin whales," Plibersek said. Watson, who is also the co-founder of Greenpeace, was arrested on an international Interpol warrant on 21 July. More than a dozen Danish police and SWAT team members boarded the John Paul DeJoria and handcuffed Watson before leading him off of the ship.
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